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 # Maintaining this collection
 
 Refer to the [Maintainer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/maintaining.rst).
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+## Update pymysql connector
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+1. Clone https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL
+1. Copy `PyMySQL/pymysql` recursivly into `plugins/module_utils/`
+1. Update the pymysql version in the readme. The version can be found in `plugins/module_utils/pymysql/__initi__.py`